First thing that comes to mind is the ability for the app to work in-flight using a local server on the aircraft itself, without needing an Internet connection.

Yes, if those security tapes showed them being really lazy.
If they were supposed to check him every X minutes and didn't, those tapes would show it and it would mean they lose their job.

You should read about the interaction between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino mass-murderer's iPhone.

Apple has shown that even when the public is on the copy's side, they won't create tools to enable access they shouldn't have.

If this happens as you expect, it would be absolutely devastating to Apple's privacy-focused brand, and their stock price would take a huge hit.

I don't trust companies not to work with the cops because it's the right thing to do, but they're consistent on protecting their stock price above all else.

Oh, I love odd foods as well. That's not the problem.
-I don't want to smell someone's processed tuna & rice they heated in the microwave while I'm already feeling sick to my stomach.
-I don't want to smell popcorn, often burnt, when someone decides to have a mid-afternoon snack
-I don't want to hear someone loudly smacking their lips & chewing with their mouth open in the cubicle next to me.
-I struggle with my weight, and because of my issues with food addiction, I'm going to eat whatever anyone brings to share. Fried doughnuts, bagels with cream cheese, cupcakes, birthday cakes, etc. All of that tastes great, but I'm over 60kg overweight. I don't need to make the process of losing weight even more difficult.

And yes, everything I've listed is an actual experience I've had.

Like I said, in a perfect world, or after we create transporters, I'd really like a day or two in the office with others so I can have the nice parts about it, and with 5-6 days at home in between, I can look past the annoying parts. However, I never again desire to spend 10 hours a week in the car and attempt to be on a conference call with all of the sounds & smells around me causing constant distraction.

I've worked from home for almost 7 years.
-There is plenty of serendipity, as we know how to use online collaboration tools spontaneously.
-I absolutely love not smelling the odd food of dozens of coworkers either in the cubicles or in the break room, and I eat much cheaper and healthier at home.
-Plenty of random conversations using online tools
-I never know what I'm going to have in a given day. Just this past Monday, I had something jump in my lap totally unexpected that resulted in a full day working that problem rather than what I had planned.

Sure, I'd love to be in an office 1 day a week, MAYBE 2. However, it's impossible to be in the office with all of my coworkers. The nearest one is 222 km from me, and some are over 14,000 km away.

All of them are talented, and I'd hate to only be able to work with people that lived nearby.

Yeah, if you have a PC or Xbox that can handle them. It's already an option to do that.
I'm excited to do this because I already pay for this service just for the Xbox catalog.
I'm not going to play any lag-sensitive games, but something like No Man's Sky or Fallout would be great on it.

The problem is that there are no such things as red states or blue states.
There are urban areas and rural areas.
Even within those areas, we're talking more like a 60/40 split, not a 90/10 split.

I've read something about OneWeb using lower frequencies, and trying to focus on IoT devices.
The advantage *might* be that it has a lower cost per connected device through a receiver that is much simpler than Starlink's motorized dish.
That said, it frankly sounds like a doomed project that is only alive for the moment because of the backing of the UK government. They went from 500 employees in March to around 80 now.

There are tons of professions that need as close to real-time as it gets.
Even those radar images you see on the local news come from NWS over the Internet. They may have their own radar, but they use composite data from NWS.
As a SkyWarn spotter, I need to be able to know when I have to take shelter, but also need to be able to stay outside as long as I can to record and communicate conditions back to NWS.

How did this comment get +5 insightful?

They do use one. The biggest one, in fact:

akadns.net is Akamai, the world's largest CDN, unless AWS has passed them recently.

I spot-checked the FQDN list they published, and many of them are behind Akamai. Some are not, and I would assume there are good reasons for that.

The data at NWS is frequently changing, which works against caching. You don't want a 5 minute old radar image of a 80 MPH storm.

Not if games continue to move towards cross-play.
Xbox is finally 100% open to it, both on PC and the console.
Playstation is dragging their feet, because of their dominant position, but many games are working around them for crossplay.
If this trend continues, everyone will be able to play on the console they prefer, and the console wars will be less extreme, limited only to exclusive games.

No. New Horizons isn't expected to last much more than a year longer than the Voyagers.
The Voyager program was much more of a flagship class program. It was over-designed to avoid failure, and very expensive as a result.
New Horizons is part of the more low cost, high volume method a NASA.
That's actually been a good thing, because a lot more different missions have been approved that would never have been approved before.
However, we don't have anything out there launched this century that compares to the Voyager program.

Just attempted to order AT&T Internet. This is the only option they give my for my address. I currently have 1gbit/40mbit Comcast at this same address.

Depends what you mean by "faster".

Later versions of Starlink will use sat to sat laser to route traffic over long distances.
The speed of light in a vacuum is faster than the speed of light through fiber, and a cable on the ground doesn't go in a very straight line.

Over a long distance, it is expected that Starlink will have lower latency than fiber.

That said, if you're moving data, nothing beats a Antonov An-225 filled with 18TB hard drives.
That's around 5.2 Exabytes per shipment.

Congratulations, you just invited the International Telecommunication Union 155 years after it was founded.